Operational Quantum Reference Frame Transformations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14002v2
• Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 10:07:07 GMT
• Title: Operational Quantum Reference Frame Transformations
• Authors: Titouan Carette, Jan G{\l}owacki and Leon Loveridge
• Abstract summary: We provide a general, operationally motivated framework for quantum reference frames and their transformations. The work is built around the notion of operational equivalence. We give an explicit realisation in the setting that the initial frame admits a highly localized state with respect to the frame observable.
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• Abstract: Quantum reference frames are needed in quantum theory for much the same reasons as reference frames are in classical relativity theories: to manifest invariance in line with fundamental relativity principles. Though around since the 1960s, and used in a wide range of applications, only recently has the means for transforming descriptions between different frames been tackled in detail. Such transformations are needed for an internally consistent theory of quantum reference frames. In this work, we provide a general, operationally motivated framework for quantum reference frames and their transformations, holding for locally compact groups. The work is built around the notion of operational equivalence, in which theoretical objects that cannot be physically distinguished are identified. For example, we describe the collection of observables relative to a given frame as a subspace of the algebra of invariants on the composite of system and frame, and from here the set of relative states can be constructed as a convex subset of the predual. Besides being invariant, the relative observables are also framed, meaning that they can be realized with the chosen frame observable. The frame transformations are then maps between equivalence classes of relative states that can be distinguished by both initial and final frames. We give an explicit realisation in the setting that the initial frame admits a highly localized state with respect to the frame observable. The transformations are invertible exactly when the final frame also has such a localizability property. The procedure we present is in operational agreement with other recent inequivalent constructions on the domain of common applicability, but extends them in a number of ways which we describe.

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